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Definition of Greek Orthodox
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Partainyms: Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church
Definition of Greek Orthodox
1. Adjective. Describing any Eastern Orthodox Church that is ethnically Greek or uses Greek liturgy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greek Orthodox
Literary usage of Greek Orthodox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The Eastern Church in America: The Greek Orthodox Church in present United ...
The increase of Greek Orthodox communities in the United States has been ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Hence these divisions of the Greek Church are respectively called the "Greek
Orthodox" and the "Greek Catholic" for convenience in designation. ..."
3. The Canadian Law Times by Armour, Edward Douglas, 1851-1922, Judicial Committee, Great Britain, Elliott, Charles, Privy Council, Gillis, Edward, Hunter, Alfred Taylour, 1867-1957, Thompson, Bram (1919)
"Is. Chrysta, Congregation of the Orthodox Greek- Catholic Church." " Greek Orthodox
Roman! ... Greek Orthodox Congregation ..."
4. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1890)
"Very soon, however, he and almost all his followers returned to their allegiance
to the Greek Orthodox church. Leo XIII. in his encyclical of AI>. ..."
5. The Russian Immigrant by Jerome Davis (1922)
"CHAPTER V ORGANIZED SOCIAL FORCES: RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL The Russian Greek
Orthodox Church WE have already noted in Chapter II that representatives of ..."
6. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"Many attribute the preservation of Greek national identity to the actions of the
Greek Orthodox Church during approximately 400 years of Ottoman rule and ..."
7. Religious Intolerance in Europe Today: Hearing Before the Commission on edited by Alfonse M. D'Amato (1999)
"... Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, whom I have the honor
to represent, for the opportunity and the privilege to address the plight of ..."
8. Dante and the Book of the Cosmos: Transactions, APS by John Demaray (2007)
"The Greek Orthodox altar in the Holy Sepulchre at the traditional site of the
cross, a cross proclaimed in medieval pilgrimage texts to have been made from ..."
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